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Miraloma Mediterranean Curb Appeal: Design for Flora Grubb Gardens

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Like with my last posted garden design, this little number involved designing a pieced front garden and rear garden, with a container planting for inside a courtyard entrance in SF’s Miraloma neighborhood. This, too, was a design I did last … Continue reading

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Miraloma Hilltop Garden: Design for Flora Grubb Gardens

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A big part of my growth in plant palette over the past six-plus years working at Flora Grubb Gardens has been in palms. Prior to working at the nursery, I naively thought I knew the five or so palms of … Continue reading

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boZannical Design + Installation: Small and Semi-Formal

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Sometime last fall I was contacted by a friend of a friend to see about designing and planting a very small patch of front garden for his condo up the hill from us near the Seward Slides. After a bit … Continue reading

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boZannical Commission: Moss Sculptures for Dropbox

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In the several months since my last post I’ve been extremely busy with installations and designs, both freelance and through my job. One of the most exciting and rewarding projects to ever come my way just installed this past week … Continue reading

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Speaking Engagement: Permeable Hardscaping Lecture & Workshop

Another speaking engagement! On Saturday, May 16, I will be speaking once again on a topic related to coping with the historic drought: Permeable Hardscaping. My talk is being hosted by Garden for the Environment, the organic demonstration garden on 7th and … Continue reading

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boZannical Design + Installation: Colorful Succulents and Grasses in Balboa Park

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I was so pleased when a friend of ours asked me to redesign an area of their back garden in the Balboa Park neighborhood of San Francisco. We had excavated a weedy area and bricked it in for them last … Continue reading

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boZannical Design + Installation: Reindeer Moss Wall Panels

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Perhaps the most thrilling part of our recent installation of Patrick Lannan’s interior plants and a vertical garden at Oculus VR is that I was also commissioned to create two moss wall panels for their work studio. I’d worked on … Continue reading

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My Interview on Love Letters Live

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Well, it’s live at last! A few weeks ago, the parklet garden I designed and planted for Cheese Plus Market on Polk Street was “discovered” by a local writer for the Examiner newspaper, Janet Gallin. She did a lovely and … Continue reading

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What’s in a Design: Drought Tolerance

One thing I hear all the time – perhaps more than anything else in design requests – is drought tolerance. Besides doing my own designs and installations, I field the initial design requests for the design team at Flora Grubb … Continue reading

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boZannical Design + Installation: A Xeric Garden in Glen Canyon

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Last summer I was contacted through the BoZannical Gardens Facebook page with a request to do a design of my own. What a thrill! I love doing garden installations of all flavors, but it’s especially exciting to be called upon to … Continue reading

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